Landforms

What aspects of human life are influenced by topography?

• Lifestyles, economic activities, transportation, culture

• No influences are made by topography

• Only foods and ideas

• Governments and laws

What is the scientific study of landforms, the processes that make them, why they vary, and their significance at different scales called?

• Climatology

• Oceanography

• Geomorphology

• Meteorology

Which three major cycles combine to form the geological cycle?

• Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Water Cycle

• Rock Cycle, Tectonic Cycle, Hydrological Cycle

• Atmospheric Cycle, Biospheric Cycle, Hydrospheric Cycle

• Solar Cycle, Lunar Cycle, Tidal Cycle

What are endogenic processes?

• Forces that originate from outside the Earth, like weathering and erosion.

• Forces that originate from within the Earth, like igneous and tectonic processes.

• Processes that involve the circulation of water on Earth.

• Processes that involve the movement of minerals through different rock phases.

What process describes deeply buried rocks bending when heated or compressed over a long period?

• Faulting

• Erosion

• Folding

• Weathering

What is the geological process of mountain building called?

• Metamorphism

• Orogenesis

• Subduction

• Volcanism

How can mountain ranges grow through volcanism?

• Through the decay and disintegration of rocks.

• When magma is pushed out onto the surface and builds up volcanic rock.

• By the bending of sedimentary rock layers into arches and troughs.

• When continental plates slide past each other.

What external processes remove rock material and reduce the land?

• Tectonic shifts and plate collisions.

• Magma solidification and uplift.

• Weathering and erosion.

• Metamorphism and deformation.